i am using VMWare which has RHEL3 installed in it. now i am running a perlscript which send request to server and gets the response back from it. Iam using https request to the port 443 to enable https i installed packages. openssl Crypt-SSLeay Net-SSLeay these packages were installed properly . but while running my program am getting an error. "500 connection failed: connect : connection refused " please tell me what is the problem .. the same script works fine in Windows xp platform . so it cannot be syntax error. please help me with what can be the problem for that error. i also saw that it happens only for https..the script works fine with http. please help me.. thanks in advance Sunil